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At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism.
Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated.
This is a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.
Published to huge acclaim in the author's native Australia, Seven Types of Ambiguity was hailed as 'a tour de force' (The Age) and described as 'Perlman's achingly humane, richly layered and seamlessly constructed masterpiece' (Canberra Times).
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"'Elliot Perlman is a master storyteller.' Observer"
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Simon, an unemployed schoolteacher, maintains an obsessive interest in his great love Anna who has married Joe, a successful stockbroker - they both visit the same prostitute Angelique, who is in love with Simon, and passes on to him details of Anna's home life. After years of unrequited love for Anna, Simon decides to take matters into his own hands - kidnapping her young son and triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated. At once a love story and a devastatingly intelligent social critique, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a compelling tale of lives gone fatally awry in an age of rampant materialism.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0571207170
- ISBN 13 9780571207176
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages624
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